RED COLORATION AND MALE PARENTAL BEHAVIOUR IN THE THREESPINE STICKLEBACK

摘要

In an anadromous population of the threespine stickleback, male red coloration was correlated with agonistic and egg care behaviour of parental males, bur not with hatching success. When one male took over a neighbour's territory, the dominant male had mon intense red coloration. (C) 1996 The Fisheries Society of the British Isles [References: 12]